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''City of Djinns'' (1994) is a travelogue by William Dalrymple about the historical capital of India, Delhi. It is his second book, and culminated as a result of his six-year stay in New Delhi. City of Djinns was the first product of Dalrymple’s love affair with India, centring on Delhi, a city with ‘a bottomless seam of stories’. Shaped more like a novel than a travel book,〔Indeed, some Indian historians have opined it is a novel 'masquerading' as a travel book; eg HL Kaul, Delhi Illuminator, 1997〕 he and his wife encounter a teeming cast of characters: his Sikh landlady, taxi drivers, customs officials, and British survivors of the Raj,〔http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/asia/india/10988534/William-Dalrymple-on-Delhi.html〕 as well as whirling dervishes and eunuch dancers (‘a strange mix of piety and bawdiness’). Dalrymple describes ancient ruins〔http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/asia/india/10988534/William-Dalrymple-on-Delhi.html〕 and the experience of living in the modern city: he goes in search of the history behind the epic stories of the Mahabharata. Still more seriously, he finds evidence of the city’s violent past and present day - the 1857 mutiny against British rule; the Partition massacres in 1947; and the riots after the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984. The book followed his established style of historical digressions, tied in with contemporary events and a multitude of anecdotes. ==Adaptations== The book has now been made into a play by Rahul Dasinnur Pulkeshi of Delhi-based Dreamtheatre 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 ‘City of Djinns’ is being dramatized, with lots of flavour and fun thrown in )〕 . Dalrymple is played by Bollywood and stage actor Tom Alter, with Zohra Sehgal playing the role of Nora Nicholson, a British national who prefers to stay in India after it achieves Independence. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「City of Djinns」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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